| Frank Saucier | ||
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| Outfielder | ||
| Born: May 28, 1926 | ||
| Batted: Right | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| July 21, 1951 for the St. Louis Browns |
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| Final game | ||
| September 23, 1951 for the St. Louis Browns |
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| Career statistics | ||
| AVG | . Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in Baseball farthest from the batter Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 356 BC - Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 071 | |
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| RBI | 1 | |
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Frank Saucier (May 28, 1926 in Leslie, Missouri) played two months of the 1951 baseball season for the St. Louis Browns. The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games For the historic churches see San Antonio Missions National Historical Park The San Antonio Missions are a Minor league baseball Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Leslie is a village in Franklin County, Missouri, United States. The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. Although he had a spectactular minor league career, he is perhaps best known for being replaced by the shortest player in baseball history, Eddie Gaedel, who pinch-hit for him in a stunt devised by Browns' owner Bill Veeck in 1951, Saucier's only season in the big leagues. Edward Carl "Eddie" Gaedel ( June 8, 1925 – June 18, 1961) born in Chicago Illinois, was an American William Louis Veeck Jr (ˈvɛk rhymes with "wreck" February 9 1914 &ndash January 2 1986) also known as " Sport Shirt Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games [1]
In his brief (18-game) Major League career, Saucier had one hit in 14 at bats, giving him a . 071 batting average. Saucier also had three walks, scored four runs, and had one RBI[2]. He was much more prolific in the minor leagues, however, hitting . 348 in 1948, his first pro season, at Belleville in the Illinois State League, and followed that with a . Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Cleveland Indians over Boston Braves (4-2 All-Star Game Belleville is a city in St Clair County, Illinois, United States. 446 average at Wichita Falls in 1949, which led all of professional baseball. Wichita Falls is a city in the state of Texas and the County seat of Wichita County Texas, United States. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1 All-Star Game This attracted the attention of Veeck, who signed him in July, 1951, paying him a substantial bonus to return to baseball. [1]
In 1950 in baseball, Frank batted . 343 for the San Antonio Missions in the (Texas League-batting champion) and was named the Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year for that season. Sporting News (previously The Sporting News, and known colloquially as TSN) is an American -based Sports An injury in 1951 and two years in the U. S. Navy-Lt. during the Korean War (in addition to 38 months in World War II) short-circuited his playing time, and he never played in the majors again. [1] Professional baseball was his "stepping stone" to Texas.
Saucier graduated from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri with a degree in math and physics; the baseball field there is named after him. [3] Ironically, the site is named Frank Saucier Field; his full name is Francis Field Saucier. [2]
References
- ^ a b c Joyner, R. , "Frank Saucier", Sports Collectors Digest, Krause Publications, March 30, 2007.
- ^ a b Baseball-Reference.com: Frank Saucier
- ^ http://www.westminster-mo.edu/athletics/mens_sports/baseball/facts.html Westminster College Baseball information
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